Android 8.0 Oreo now rolling out to Nokia 8

The Nokia 8 was first announced back in August, and while the phone offers a lot of eye-catching features, one of its strongest points is its near-stock build of Android. The Nokia 8 shipped with Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box, but on November 24, HMD Global's Chief Product Officer, Juho Sarvikas, announced on Twitter that Android 8.0 Oreo is now making its way to the phone.

Android Oreo will be rolling out to the Nokia 8 starting today, but Sarvikas notes that it may take up to a week for the update to hit your device.

In addition to the standard array of Oreo features, such as picture-in-picture, notification dots, fast boot-up times, and Google's Autofill API, this also increases the Nokia 8 to the latest November 2017 security patch.

Sarvikas also notes that the Nokia 6 and Nokia 5 will be the next phones in Nokia's lineup to be updated to Oreo. An Oreo beta for the two phones will be opening soon, and an official rollout should follow shortly after that.

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Android 8.0 Oreo now rolling out to Nokia 8

Kudos to Nokia for keeping to their promise of a (comparatively) speedy update. I appreciate that the likes of Samsung have more models and regionals varients, but they also have beeelions of doubloons of profits that they could reinvest in product support. They definitely lost this particular galaxy customer to Pixel thanks to ridiculous waits for updates.

its not fat they need to trim it just means they just don't care & cant be bothered, they've got your money, and expect you to buy another new phone rather than getting the (previous) years flagship updated. Likewise being stuck months behind on the monthly security updates even for the current flagship devices.

aside from pixel devices, it seems if you want to stay relatively up to date the other choices are Nokia, Oneplus, otherwise get an Android One device when they are available as these should get their updates rapidly too.